Connecticut western news., 1887-04-27
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A jury at Shreveport, La., has awarded B. c. White, the well-known newspaper core. spondent, S5, 900 damages against J. P. Scott for assaulting him and putting one of his eyes out.
 A prehistoric iron coffin has been dug up at Kansas City.
 Major F. W. Benteen of the Ninth Cavalry was recently sentenced by court matial to be dismissed from the service fer drunkenness. The President has commuted his sentence to one years suspension from rank and duty on half pay.
 A cyclone has devastated Chatham county, N. c.
 The London papers generally acknow- | ledge Nr. Gosch ems budget to be the most masterly handling of the national finances since Mir. Gladstone's plum was given to all interests. The only exception taken IS to the proposed reduction of the sinking fund, which is universally condemned. | Twelve of the Bald Knobbers have been indicted.
 | An attack was made on the platform at a meeting of the Ladies' Liberal League in Lon- | don and several persons, including two mem bers of Parliament, injured. The wreck of freight train on the Grand Trunk Railway, near Cornwall, Ont, costing the lives of two men, averted, in all probabili- | ty, more terrible disaster, as passenger train was due to cross the bridge that collaps- ed at about the time the freight train reached the point.
 | A rich vein of silver has been discovered in Bandera county, Tex.
 The Ottawa Government refuses to allow the damaged American fishing vessels at Hali- fax to procure salt. but has granted permission for one to transfer bait to another. No viola tions of the law have occurred.
 A penitent Philadelphia thief has left 8 lot of stolen silverware at the confessional
 Archbishop Corrigan denounced the recent utterances of the New York Catholic Herald as ssshockingly scandalous," and warned it's editor not to let any such appear in future. MT. D. OLoughlin, the editor, and staunch support CT of Rev. Dr. McGlynn, says that he has re- spect for Archbishop Corrigan personally, but hat he will not change his course of conduct or him or any one else.
 The Apaches now confined at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, are to be removed to Mount | Vernon, Ala.
 | M Deroulede resigned the Presidency of the Patriotic League because Of the apathy and timidity which France has shown in deal ng with Germany.
 Six thousand Belfast shipbuilders threaten to strike unless they are paid weekly instead of fortnightly.
 -Furlong's mills at Fermoy, nineteen miles north of Cork, have been destroyed by fire. Loss, fsO,oCO.
 MT. Sigourney Butler, the new Second Comptroller of the Treasury, has assumed the duties of that office.
 The Delaware Legislature has adjourned sine die. Among the closing acts of the ses- sion was the defeat by the Senate of the House High License bill.
 Terrible loss of life is reported from Yer non county, Mo-, the result of cyclone ! which swept its northern farms.
 The three divisions of socialists in this country have combined to disturb its politics.
 Actual cooperation was illustrated in Chicago by the distribution of S15, 900 of the profits of Norton Brothers among their em- ployees.
 Startling testimony has been obtained by legislative committee in Michigan regarding graveyard insurance in that State.